Solomon Bar » Decorative

Uses:

Decorative knot work

Carrying paracord for emergency purposes

Tying Instructions:

We tied this solomon bar keychain using a 28″ tan length of paracord and a 28″ black length of paracord. The black foundation cord is gutted (inner strands removed) in our demonstration. This was simply to make the keychain thinner.

When creating this keychain, the gutted foundation cord can be shortened to 10″ to save paracord.

Find the middle of the foundation cord (black) and halve it

Find the middle of the working cord (tan) and halve it

Place the middle of the working cord across the halved foundation cord

*The overhand knot can get tricky so pay particular attention to the direction it’s facing or your Solomon Bar will come out wrong*

Make a counter-clockwise turn around the foundation cord ensuring that the working end is on top of the standing part after the turn

Thread the working end down around the back of the foundation cord and up through the loop you just created (stay to the right of the foundation cord)

Tighten up the overhand knot you’ve just created

Bring the left side over the front of the foundation cord

Let the right side hang down in front of the left side

Run the right side behind the foundation cord and through the loop created

Repeat steps 8 – 10 by bringing the right side over the front now

Continue alternating between starting from the left or the right until you have the length desired

For a clean look before cutting and burning the ends, take the left side and tuck it back through the last loop it made

Cut off the ends of the tan paracord leaving about 1/16 of an inch

Burn the ends and provide pressure while cooling to fuse the melted paracord into the surrounding paracord

Repeat this for the black foundation cord

Put it on your keychain and prepare to answer questions on where you got it !

After the keychain is made and ends trimmed, the amount of woven paracord contained in the solomon bar will be around two feet in length. The overall length of the keychain is about 2.5″.

View the gallery or YouTube video below and follow along with the steps above!

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